Week 17 of the English Premier League saw Chelsea take a seven-point lead over Man City; Arsenal stumble to their second successive defeat, and Hull sunk to the foot of the table.
Ray Opoku, a former Ghanaian amateur and professional boxer in the 1970s and early 80s, has fulfilled a promise to provide headgear to support juvenile boxing in Ghana after watching a Facebook post of juveniles fighting without it back in July this year.
A number of kid boxers engaged in exhibition fights at this year’s ‘Salafest’ boxing show, which took place at Opera Square in Accra on July 9, videos of which were posted on Facebook.
Everest Cricket Club are champions again - retaining the Greater Accra Cricket Invitational Tournament title when they defeated rivals BGC Cricket Club in the final by nine wickets at the Achimota Cricket Oval.
BGC scored 86 runs, all out in 19.1 overs after batting first upon winning the toss. Everest then stroked 87 runs for the loss of only 1 wicket in 15.3 overs. BGC made a poor start quickly losing three batsmen in the first 5 overs with Everest fast bowler David Nii Ashong Ankrah tearing through the BGC batting line-up.
Veteran Ghanaian boxing trainer, Ofori Asare, arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, last Thursday to conduct the AIBA (world amateur boxing governing body) boxing coaching course for One-Star certification.
The former Ghana amateur boxing team coach is on a one-week instructing course, supervising the tuition of a number of aspiring boxing coaches from December 16 to 23, with the participants expected to earn certificates that qualify them to coach at international level and be recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The 2015/2016 Premier League award winner, Coach Enos Kwame Adipah, says his target for next season is to lead Wa All Stars to reach the money zone of the CAF Champions League competition at which they will represent Ghana next year.
In an interview with the Graphic Sports last Friday after he was decorated with the esteemed Coach of the Season award, Coach Adipa said “our target in Africa is at least to get to the final four.”
National ping-pong top seed, Derek Abrefa, defeated third seed, Emmanuel Commey 4-2 in the final of the Chicken Inn/WestHills Mall table tennis tournament which took place last Saturday at the Westhill Mall in Accra.
Wa All Stars trainer, Enos Kwame Adipah, last Friday walked chest out after he emerged as Premier League Board’s (PLB) Coach of the Season at a colourful ceremony held at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra.
As part of improving on our football next season, I have through this column tried to appeal to our clubs to “take their hands off” our referees if we want good officiating from officials appointed to handle our matches.
Additionally, I also tried to point out to our referees the need to reject pressures and say NO to club officials who in their desperate attempts to win their matches at all cost, fair or foul, try to influence them.
The 2016 Premier League Board’s (PLB) awards ceremony was held at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra last Friday.
The event was graced by Supreme Court Judge, Justice Anin Yeboah, as the Special Guest of Honour, while Mr Amarkai Amarteifio, Board Chairman of Accra Great Olympics, chaired the function.
After visiting his native Nigeria, Eintracht Frankfurt legend Jay-Jay Okocha was in Ghana on Sunday as he continued his journey on the Bundesliga Legends Tour, promoting Germany's top flight alongside the league's official African broadcaster, StarTimes.
Nigeria's sports minister Solomon Dalung has called for a "reputable audit" of the country's football federation. It comes over claims of irregularities in the use of Fifa grants.
The 2015/2016 Ghana Premier League Best Footballer, Latif Blessing is set to join the exodus bandwagon with Ajax Cape Town his next destination.
Ghana’s Courage Nanevie was bundled out in the semi-finals of the ongoing Westchester monthly table tennis open in the USA after finishing second in his group.
The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has given approval to the Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) to organise a WTF-ranked international championship in August next year.
Liberty Professionals winger Latif Blessing has been crowned the Best Footballer of the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League season.
